by Robert Borosage | Dec 22, 2010 | Blog, Minimum Wage
Speaker Nancy Pelosi will relinquish the gavel to the perpetually tanned, lachrymose Republican leader John Boehner when the new Congress convenes next January. It will be four years after that January 4, 2007 day when she "broke the marble ceiling" and became the...
by Terrance Heath | Dec 10, 2010 | Blog, Minimum Wage
It has been said before — recently, even — but it bears saying again and again, as any truth does. Conservatives have finally, and completely, abandoned compassion. Progressives spent much of the previous decade declaring the "compassionate...
by Terrance Heath | Nov 30, 2010 | Blog, Minimum Wage
It hasn't even been a year since the Heritage Foundation placed Ireland among the top ten countries on its Economic Freedom Index. I wasn't intending to write about Ireland at the time, but any time the Heritage Foundation holds up any country as an economic example...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 19, 2010 | Blog, Economy, Reagan Revolution
Washington is inundated with deficit commissions. The country has piled up a huge debt because we cut taxes for the wealthy and borrowed to make up the difference. But everyone says we can't fix the problem by raising taxes on the rich in a recession because taxes...
by Leo Gerard | Nov 16, 2010 | Blog, Reagan Revolution
The deficit commission report issued last week is another Saturday night special pressed to the temple of the American middle class. “Turn over your money and your benefits or your country will die,” the report screams at workers. “You want your country to go...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 15, 2010 | Blog, Minimum Wage
Former White House budget director Peter Orszag is taking a new approach in his quest to cut Social Security. He's playing progressive "good cop" to to the ultra-right bad cops of the White House deficit commission, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson. Now that Bowles and...
